# Water Is The Most Important

I recently read about how much Byzantines emphasized water for
hygiene and how they made the water system for Constantinopolis.

After reading it, I have realized that water is the most important.

Water > Gas > Electricity.


Your body is over 70% water. So water is extremely important for
your body. If you can't drink water for 3-4 days, that alone will
kill you.

Similarily, with water alone you can grow plants! The water doesn't
have to be that clean. With water you can have foods.

Water means hygiene. In the end, hygiene converges to water. More
water means more hygiene. Like Byzantines had realized. So stockpile
wet tissues too.

However, if you can't catch rainwater or other natural sources of
water without going outside, going off-grid with water is very
hard.

In the case of electricity, it is quite easy if you got some
know-hows to live without electricity. Also unlike gas, water
consumes a lot of space and you can't just burn anything to substitute
it. Water spoils quite fast too.


Thus before stockpiling other things, you should stockpile at least
2 weeks of water (53L per person) and seriously think about how to
get additional water first. Or how to save stockpiled water.